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Sometimes it makes sense to have different bug trackers for each sub-product, but also one for support, and one for your infrastructure issues, and a locked-down one for security tickets, and maybe another for packaging issues - any of which may not have associated source repos. Whatver organizational model meets your project's needs best, you have the flexibility to apply it. And people often do! A lot of the projects on sr.ht, given this flexibility, haven't recreated the same model as GitHub shoehorns you into.

It goes beyond bug trackers, too. One other detail is that different projects can share resources with one another. I use one mailing list to slurp up all patches for my smaller side projects into one place, for example.
Ah cool so does this mean that all the other stocks are safe and will only make me money? Very cool of Robin Hood to protect me from ever being exposed to any risk like this. It’s just really cool to know that they remove the ones that can lose me money.
Rust is absolutely amazing and made me a much better programmer. But programmer ergonomics don't seem like a focus of their team currently.

I can only hope for Rust 202X edition that can introduce new syntax / deprecate another and make certain things clearer (even if that means explicit with a little writing here and there). Lifetimes and traits in particular need a lot of upfront investment to grok intuitively, and the fact that some core aspects of the language are implied can later hit your assumptions really hard and confuse you for a while. At least that's happened to me, maybe I am just dumb and mediocre though.
If I rent 2 TB and use 2TB it doesn't matter what I use it for, does it?

I would agree if we talked about Backblaze with "unlimited" backup for next-to-nothing, but this is Dropbox which is rather pricey and also limited to a very specific number of (Tera)Bytes.

If they cannot deliver on their promises, shame on them.
Thank you, I hadn’t seen this. I miss him dearly.
It's so sad what's happening
> Operating Systems. I have at home Edsger Dijkstra's source code for the operating system he wrote in 1965. Nobody has looked at it, and we should.

I'd love to see this. Please put it on your webpage Dr. Knuth!
Can someone help me understand Robinhood's POV? This just seems so outrageous that there must be some sane rationale that I'm not seeing.

Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this? Whether the investments being made are responsible or not, it doesn't seem like it should be their place to intervene.

If the hedge funds over-shorted GME and WSB recognized that and traded against that bad analysis, then that's great! If the pendulum swung the other direction and WSB is trading into some momentum, how is that any different than the hedge funds doing the same with shorts? Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding against their own customers)?
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We're close to reaching a "let them have cake" point of elite arrogance.
I do not (entirely) disagree with your comment, but I think it would be fair to add some counterweight to the evidence you provide for your point (2): Acta was ultimately rejected by the European Parliament.
> privacy oriented fintech

this phrase is an oxymoron. Banks need to monitor, track, report activities. Central banks 'siphon' all transactions every day/week/month, so they can cross reference that Henry Bemis made in total $100m transactions today even if he used 50 different banks. A single bank can only track/monitor for AML its own clients. Central Banks can do that. Tax authorities can tap into bank's data.

Side note: There is no such thing as privacy when you use a card. The only thing that 'protects' you is that your bank won't sell your data to Facebook. But NatWest banking app DOES talk to FB when you fire it up... so... at least they don't tell FB (yet) everything you do.
> Why is this miserable?

Because Zuck's version of 'good' includes building a platform optimized exactly for fomenting discord and hatred in order to create ad revenue and bring in eye balls and clicks. It's a part of the survielence economy and has been weaponized in countless ways, Zuck may not be the one building it any more, he has many of you do that for him.

But it stands to reason that of those 3 you listed you have a very clear 'orge' in the bunch.

What good has he done for Society over all exactly?

Even with unfathomable wealth all he seems to be responsible for is creating a greater divide and discord amongst people and that help promote absurd conspiracies and crate time-wasting habits especially so in developing countries as his platform is what most associate with what the 'internet' as they cannot afford to browse anything else once they have access to it via FB enabled smart phones.

I'm glad SpaceX had his satellite blow up on the launch pad!

God only knows what horrible things would be possible had it actually made it into orbit.

As for Mark Cuban, I'm on the fence but his talk and backing of Andrew Yang makes me think he isn't an ogre, but Zuckerburg certainly is, willing or not at this point.
It was only 2006 when I worked at a company making ASIC-based network security products and had a coworker whose actual description of the threat profile was "kids who live in their parents basements, need to see the sun more"
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Exactly, and that only means that people behind anti-encryption regulations does not care about national security.

Or they are so painfully incompetent that they don't understand that it is much better if one cannot figure out that some military officer or energy sector/government employee has a lover since such person could be blackmailed by foreign intelligence.

Apparently they don't get that those pesky terrorists can encrypt message by themselves in thousands of ways. Internet is full of information how to do this.
We all have fairly similar hardware, brains don't vary that much between people. I think what unites a lot of "geniuses" is actually monomania. Whether it be athletes, scientists or musicians, being obsessed with a single activity will of course help you excel, but to the detriment of everything else in your life.
So only big shot hedge funds are allowed to manipulate the market and get away with it? How dare the common man shift the balance of power, that too by playing totally within the rules!?

Seriously, if a fund did this, they'd be patting themselves on the back, and would have had little to no backlash from their brokers.
Many brokers have lent the shares to hedge funds that went short on the stock. Now these hedge funds are on the verge of bankruptcy. If they default the brokers are in a lot of trouble.
html3 is still a web standard all right: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32
Meanwhile WSB is adding over 1,000 subscribers per minute.
Yeah, I'm getting really tired of people saying "not a monopoly" when we're discussing de facto monopolies. Especially in the short term, and for knee-jerk reactions. Do you think any Discord competitor is going to welcome /r/wsb with open arms after that move? Ergo: monopoly.
Just because something's in a TOS doesn't make it legally enforceable, especially if you've got enough money collectively for expensive lawyers.
Pretty sure the repo maintainer still wants to engage with users as peers (via bug reports and feature requests as they mention) just not through code contributions.

In fact, if you only look at the "issues" framework, GitHub does a pretty good job of making things easy to use compared to the other bug trackers...
> Most devs are not interested in self-hosting a git repo

I mean, the _old_ way of sharing source code was to upload it to an FTP mirror, and then once the Internet got "modern," a personal website. GitHub is not the only way to get a project on the Internet, it's just the most popular way at the moment.
Nice project!!! I love these e-ink based projects that enable you to provide data without looking it up.

Is there a way to enable real-time messaging on to an e-ink device ? For e.g. I would love to keep a kindle running that can show a message when I am on the road.
You seem to be hinting at the idea that naked short selling should be illegal, which it has been for over a decade. So here’s a minor clarification for you: The short interest (140% or more for GME) is calculated on the public float. There is a significant chunk of GameStop shares that are not publicly accessible, but could be borrowed against (the shares do exist). If you consider the total outstanding shares of GME, then only 99% or so of the company was shorted. So it’s a crazy high amount, but there is no proof that any (actually illegal) naked short selling was occurring. So long as the people holding the non-public portion allowed their shares to be borrowed, then nothing illegal is going on. If, in the unlikely situation that EVERYONE needed to close their short positions at once, these non-public shares could actually be sold if the owner wanted to. Of course, they could dictate a really high price if the public market volume isn’t enough to close out the short positions in the standard three day period.

The reason that short interest is calculated on public float is because that makes the most sense for normal situations. We just happen to have stumbled into one of those unusual situations.
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Question for the OP (farslan). I do apologise in advance if this is something you wouldn't want to discuss, but do you think a notice such as this would have prevented you from burning out in regards to your open source projects?

You have contributed immensely to the go community and I expect the decision to take a step back from open source contributions was hard and that you probably have revisited it often. I wonder if you have thought of things that might improve the process for other maintainers. Would the ability for example to disable pull requests help? Maybe a way to ask/find people to help moderate the issues or PRs before they reach you?

Thank you both (Fatih and Ben) for all the hard work you've put into open source.

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ps. For people who might not know what I'm talking about, this might help. https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical...
Unless someone can show me a use case where one can get the job done and the other cannot in technology terms (not shop standards or politics) then I have to conclude two things: (1) this is a dumb question, and (2) YAML isn't getting the respect it deserves.
Reading through this thread, I've been introduced to a lot of excellent takes on this issue that I hadn't thought about before.

In thinking about how to balance the two sides, I wonder if maintaining a master branch and a "community" branch would be one way to do it; all pull requests for new features could be added to the community branch, and the branch would always contain all the features of the master, but with the caveat that community would be untested. This would allow me to focus on the project goals as I see fit, but rely on the community to bug test and update the additional features. It would offload the work of maintenance without the need to split the codebase for every single individual feature request.

Curious if something like this is used for any larger projects! I'm sure it wouldn't always work but maybe on certain types of projects it could.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-multiple-desktops-in-...
Doesn't make sense they'd allow you to disable Issues but not PRs if they only cared about engagement
This is one recent meta-study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00797-y

One of the main datasources is uniprot.org.

I know for a fact that AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Roche,
Boehringer Ingelheim are all using RDF Knowledge Graphs, and there are probably many others. It would take some time to find the references though.

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why would people use this site? it seems very unreliable, i tried with many attempts last night to signup and all I get are strange errors..why would i want to conduct serious business through them if they can't simply handle signups
No, archiving implies that no more code changes will be made. The author’s intention is not that that project is “finished”, it’s that they are the only ones going to make changes to it. Archiving will lock the authors out of making changes as well.
I feel this so hard. Accepting nd reviewing contributions is far more work than it is worth in many cases and there's only so much benevolent helping time a person has. Especially if running multiple projects, sometimes you gotta cut the cord.
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How appropriate, in 2001 I was trapped with both and then some (Oracle), and I'm so glad I can now choose to be in the presence of neither.

Back then I did devops for a moderately sized stocks platform with real time ticks and charting, the works. We had two large code bases, one in perl, one in Java.

They both were bad times.

Java, because the java coders didn't quite understand how threading worked, leaking all over the place. My job was to migrate the systems from AIX 64bit machines (that could deal with the memory leaks with only one restart per hour) to x86 Linux. It was kind of fun (because everything was pretty contained) until the stuff went into production, and the servlets died after 4-5 requests each under non synthetic load.

And Perl, because the perl coders thought it was of benefit to write code that nobody could read but the author, and that it was OK to have dependencies on very old and very new libraries at the same time.

I gotta admit, the Perl stuff ran more stable. But it was still hell to upgrade the machines or debug even the smallest issues.
That's just describing payment for order flow, which is entirely different.
They've since changed ownership and the new owner seemed to put a lot of effort into cleaning it up.
Normally, when you short a share, your broker has to go find somebody who already owns it and they "borrow" it from there and allow you to "sell" it short. But if you can believe this, the very, very largest Wall Street firms, (Citadel, Sigma2, etc.) those with trillion dollar balance sheets got a special exemption from the SEC : rather than having to "find" shares to borrow, they can "manufacture" shares, using their massive balance sheets as collateral. This is how 140% of GameStonk can be shorted. It is this unfair playing field that r/wallstreetbets is fighting against. Since the short exceeds the float, it is possible that there could be an "infinite" short squeeze, that even if they took the company private by buying every available share, there would still be another 40% outstanding they would have to cover. HOLD!
I'd argue Robinhood customers are not more clever, but they are more irrational/motivated by non-market goals.

Getting absolutely wrecked by irrational market behaviour is a rite of passage for small traders, and it's only fair that some bigger hedge funds should learn that lesson too.
Brokers are worried about their legal exposure at this point.

They could face lawsuits from investors in Melvin and other hedge funds, who will allege that the brokers knew they were facilitating intentional financial harm. It doesn’t matter if these are likely to fail; they are expensive lawsuits to defend against and therefore may result in settlements.

And they could face class action litigation from trial lawyers representing retail investors who lose money when the bubble finally bursts. Again, maybe the brokers will win these suits but they are expensive and bad for the brand. “I used Robinhood and lost my life’s savings” is not the news story they want to see 2 months from now. (Edit to clarify: class action litigators have PR strategies to feed these stories to reporters, hoping bad press will convince their target to settle.)
I'm really curious in how much money was needed to pump the price the stock up this much. If it's relatively little, it really points to a flaw in the stock market system.
Tree Style Tabs has more features and is arguably better. In the year following the core changes in Firefox (Chrome extensions, threaded tabs) I had many bugs (high cpu load, broken tree, no restoring at startup...) but I haven't seen a bug in the past year. Configuration was not easy though, and It don't know if it still requires fidgeting with Firefox's files in order to remove the default tab bar.
There is a middle way: continuous integration quality gates.

For projects with a small core team and lots of contributors, you can write tests which analyze the submission for quality. Linting tests, code quality tests, smoke tests, unit tests, functional tests, ChangeLog tests, etc. Each one will halt the PR and inform the user what failed and how to fix it. The user can then gradually improve the quality of their PR until it passes all tests, and then someone will review it.

I've used this method on projects before, and both as a contributor and a maintainer, I love it. As a contributor, it is a seamless feedback cycle that tells me how to improve my contribution before I bother anybody. As a maintainer, most contributors just don't put in the effort, so I don't get bothered.

You can also put other quality gates in place, like asking someone to sign your contribution agreement, confirming they have read documentation ("what's the secret phrase?") or that their change includes documentation. It takes some work to set up at first, but it really improves productivity and quality.
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I'd just add that for some things like non-competes, even if the company wouldn't/couldn't likely enforce, they can be red flags for a potential employer. I worked for a very small company for a number of years and our COO wouldn't touch anyone with a non-compete even if it seemed likely there was no issue because they just saw it as too big a risk for our small firm to get into a legal tangle with a much bigger company.
This is unbelievable. If there ever was a time to be outraged. This is naked corruption as usual hiding under the shabbiest veil of virtue. RobinHood traders can bankrupt and kill themselves, and that is fine, we will continue prodding them to trade more often, but once we get a call from one our hedge fund buddies, moaning about the rubes stopping him from raping another company, we will shut the rabble down.
This whole Game Stop situation has made the power of the rich so obvious and disgusting.

They temporarily shut down the market, banned the discord server, and are now preventing people from buying stocks on the most popular app used by small time investors.

All of these moves hurt the small time investor trying to cash in on the next bitcoin-like bubble. This just creates more division, more disgust, and more of a class war than already exists. So sad to see.
One of Robinhood's main business partner is Citadel (RH sells their order flow to Citadel). Citadel is also the firm that has bailed out Melvin Capital, one of the hedge funds that took a huge short position in GME.

Probably just a coincidence.
There is the more powerful version, Tree Style Tabs. Been using it for years and can't switch browsers because of it :).

I've seen people talk about Sideberry but I've never tried it.
I guess this would probably solve the problem of you getting unsolicited contributions – by making you come off as such a gigantic raging arsehole that nobody would want to work with you again.
> other good things [citation needed]

Are these good things, or just fashionable things? Is optimizing for five nines, at the expense of many other metrics, ever the right choice if you're not Google? Or is it just a fad? Especially if and when the implementation is just pure blind cargo-culting?
Oh please. Robinhood's business model is not designed for this kind of thing. They are not required to tank their own business to allow malcontents to feel better about themselves.
Someone remind me again how this is even legal? You can SELL but not BUY, thus automatically suppressing all stock values?!
So FYI, the Reddit WSB "shutdown" was temporary and on purpose (by the mod admins) to clean up the page a bit. It was private for an hour or two and back up.

Discord, not so. Looking at the financial backers of Discord, you can pretty quickly draw a link to the short sellers. Presumably some phone calls or dinners were had last night and strings were pulled to shut the discord down.
Tree Style Tab [1] is a generalisation of this to arbitrary levels of nesting. It also goes down the side of the browser window, which is a far better use of space. I'd say it's the number 1 reason I (still) use Firefox.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
This is just a guess, but I imagine the hedge funds that own shares of these platforms are pulling some strings. That's a bit conspiratorial, but is it really that unbelievable?
We were already on that point at least since the bank bailouts.
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Luckily, I used my Vanguard account instead of making a Robinhood.
"Synthetic Shares" just sounds like a fancy way of saying you have a loan on the books. Its like if I loan you money and saying now I have "Synthetic Money" in the form of the loan you owe me. Money people seem to love to make up new terminology to obfuscate the meaning.
Do you believe CNBC or where are you getting your info that they have covered all their shorts?
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It’s a pretty classic tactic in the history of conflict. By pushing your opponent into a tight position, you force him to strike first, thus giving you complete justification in your disproportionate response.
I'm constantly amazed by the examples on /r/choosingbeggars. We need to be careful during sweeping conclusions from it due to selection bias, but the number of people giving things away who have clearly learned to put "I will not deliver it to you" etc. on their posts does paint a picture.
All of the open source BSDs derive from the same original code base and have survived as forks doing exactly what you describe. They each have different communities and different goals but still frequently borrow patches from one another.
My point is that lobbying isn’t some magical activity, it’s just petitioning the government. Anyone being governed should probably be able to voice comply about how they’re being governed. Corporations aren’t some magical thing,and most aren’t the giant entities people imagine.

Do I think lobbyists should write legislation? No. Do I think congress should be able to break encryption without ever tech company sending someone to educate them on their stupidity? Also no.

I think there are some controls we could put on lobbying but it’s useful.

If Congress still allowed floor votes and amendments to bills, lobbying would be far less clandestine and effective. Right now lobbyists just have to target congressional leadership and key committees. Congress in an effort to clamp down on the legislative process and protect its members from controversial ores has made the process more vulnerable.
> The level of arbitrariness of legal process in legal systems of ex-UK colonies is in league of its own in the world, and USA is particularly prominent at that.

Can you post a link to some comparison of arbitrariness of ex-UK legal systems and other systems?
As far as I understand it robinhood makes (most of their?) money from selling their order flow to hedge funds.
Exactly, I cannot agree more.
If you're trying to suggest something, feel free to come out and say it rather than obliquely alluding to some vague conspiracy.
Robinhood makes most of its money by selling "dumb money" order flows to bigger Wall Street firms: https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/robinhood-makes-millions-sell...

It seems plausible to me that some of Robinhood's real paying customers have asked them to tame their unruly product.